SirKnight wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 16:03:Which part did you get stuck on? I'm curious if it's the same part that had me for a while. Actually, there was a few parts that had me going WTF!?

I'll tell you the two places I needed much more work than expected:

There was a level where you leave the inside labs and need to get across to offices way up on the other side of a huge chasm. It required going back to the speed gel on the floor you previously used to get past some crushers and use it gain momentum to run into a portal on the wall and jump the gap.

The other is the one where you have to manipulate a blob of repelling gel through the pushing/pulling beam so you can drop it on a string of sentry guns on the other side of a glass barrier.

Interested if those were parts others thought were particularly hard or easy.

nin wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 11:35:And have you thought about travel with the dogs, Blue? I don't mean to alarm you, but all the horror stories of the past few years of pets and airlines has convinced me that if I had to move, I'd have to transport the animals myself via car. But doing that from NY to CA seems like a monumental task.

We are up in the air about a lot of this, but one thing we decided at the very outset is if we move, we will drive across country with the dogs. Hudson the wonder dog is not afraid of any beast on this earth, but she gets nervous about strange sounds, is never forced to be in a crate, and has noticeable separation anxiety. She's also pushing 12 years old, and has a heart murmur, and I'm fairly convinced she would not survive a plane trip even if everything went perfectly.

Beamer wrote on Apr 26, 2012, 11:15:Oh, apologies if you didn't want the location revealed!

No worries... I tend to over-share, so I would have mentioned it. As much as anything, I avoided too much detail because I was mentioning this here before we'd even had the chance to break it to some friends and family.

Beamer wrote on Apr 25, 2012, 16:30:Any chance she can move from the Glendale group to the NYC group?

Haha, I guess you are familiar with the situation. No, it seems the three offers they were doling out were Glendale, Manhattan, and the unemployment line. Much to Disney's credit, the last group was by far the smallest, but there's no indication that there is an option for anyone to choose between NYC and LA, so there we are.

space captain wrote on Apr 20, 2012, 22:26:did you know that generalizing and absolutism are the hallmarks of dumbassery?

Seems like you have an infinite loop of self-deprecating tautology going there.

Anyway, posting nothing but messages expressing contempt for the intellectual capacity of your peers is the hallmark of someone who doesn't want to post here anymore. After all these years I think your message has come across, so this is the last time I'll request that you stop attempting to "elevate" the conversation in this manner.

Seen their show in Vegas twice, and it was great. And both times after the show, they came out and shook hands, did autographs, and hung out with folks. Really nice guys.

My sister talked to Teller and said "He has a very soft voice." :)

They've always done that: I saw them outside after their show on Broadway years and years ago. Though to be fair, it's not so much that they come out after the show and just sign autographs: They have the show conclude in a manner that allows them to be outside the theater to personally sell souvenirs to the departing audience. It's so blatant, it's actually charming.

And I love the fact that Teller doesn't shy away from speaking when not in the act... I would be kind of stupid for it to be one of those deals where people were sneaking around trying to "catch" him talking.

Ant wrote on Apr 13, 2012, 10:02:Sorry about that... I spent the day burning with fever.

Poor Blue. It's OK. At least you gave us a warning about your sickness. Are you better now? Flu is really late this season and MANY people are sick! Thanks, yeah, I'm feeling so much better I'm just pretending I'm well. Denial is the best medicine.

AnointedSword wrote on Apr 6, 2012, 12:52:Ya, the true meaning of Easter has nothing to do with the secular world...Does Blue always post on here or does someone else? I really do not see Blue using this terminology? It is like smacking Christians in the face...

Sorry, simply an error, one that may seem surprising, but I've always had to consciously not get that backwards.

Not sure how it would be interpreted as an insult, however. Seems to me you are being a little sensitive.

HumanTarget wrote on Mar 28, 2012, 11:57:I don't recall you ever mentioning the make/model before but you could always solicit recommendations of what to check. :-)

Does it crank at least?

Well, it's not too big a mystery. It's an '01 Corvette and it seems like my column lock bypass may be failing, because I get a "service column lock" message, and a request to remove the key and wait 10 seconds, but that does not clear the message. The battery is low and needed a jump to start, but it kept stalling after displaying that message, and eventually exhausted my jumper box from restarting.

It's a convertible that lives outside and the electricals are a little flaky from exposure to the elements: I have a good local mechanic, and besides straightening this issue out, I think I need to ask him to see if he can track down a short, since he can actually be trusted to do that and A) properly diagnose the problem, and B) not rob me blind.

PHJF wrote on Mar 26, 2012, 15:32:White Castle started using smaller burgers so they could cook more of them, faster.

smaller and with holes on the patty so they dont have to flip them over to cook the other side.

They don't flip them? I know the holes help steam pass through and sog up the bun, which is apparently part of the appeal (as a big fan of good hamburgers, I'm not a big fan of White Castle). Didn't know they don't flip them either.

And yes, the idea that a slider might serve as a gateway drug for hamburgers for my niece was in part based on the altered ratio of inside to outside meat, and the natural attraction kids have to small food.